Newspaper Veteran Winford Turner Dies at 63

By: E&P Staff

Winford Turner, the former managing editor of the Times Daily in Florence, Ala., and a former city editor at The Decatur Daily of Decatur, Ala., died Jan. 24 at his home in Decatur. He was 63.

Turner started in the newspaper industry at The Decatur Daily in 1961 at the age of 18. Turner also owned and operated a weekly paper, the Free Press.

Turner worked brief stints in other fields as well, working as a news director for a Huntsville, Ala., television station for four years before becoming regional editor of the Times Daily in 1983.

Turner also worked as a revenue commissioner before returning to The Decatur Daily as a night editor in 1996.

Turner is survived by his wife, Christine Turner, three sons (two of whom are newspaper editors), 10 grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.